Comments on: VMware's Cloud OS Is Compelling, But Closed

By: Ironic? Benioff and Maritz Talk Cloud Lock-In: Cloud «

Ironic? Benioff and Maritz Talk Cloud Lock-In: Cloud « — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:54:51 +0000

[...] to talk about application portability, because applications reside a layer above where VMware does business in a rather closed manner. In the case of Salesforce.com, Force.com developers don’t have to buy any hardware, but (until [...]

By: What Happened in Cloud Computing in Q2?

What Happened in Cloud Computing in Q2? — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:01:40 +0000

[...] also saw the line between cloud computing and virtualization blur with the long-awaited introduction of VMware’s vSphere 4. Dubbed a cloud operating system, vSphere 4 combines VMware’s suite of dynamic virtualization [...]

By: Transitioning From The Enterprise To The Cloud » Blog Archive

Transitioning From The Enterprise To The Cloud » Blog Archive — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:49:38 +0000

[...] storage or networking vendor-specific functionality. That certainly appears to be happening even between VMware and the storage layer it has partially put on top of EMC, NetApp, et [...]

By: Private Clouds: IT Operations Finally Meet Moore’s Law | Design Website

Private Clouds: IT Operations Finally Meet Moore’s Law | Design Website — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:11:21 +0000

[...] storage or networking vendor-specific functionality. That certainly appears to be happening even between VMware and the storage layer it has partially put on top of EMC, NetApp, et [...]

By: Private Clouds: IT Operations Finally Meet Moore’s Law

Private Clouds: IT Operations Finally Meet Moore’s Law — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:03:21 +0000

[...] storage or networking vendor-specific functionality. That certainly appears to be happening even between VMware and the storage layer it has partially put on top of EMC, NetApp, et [...]

By: Eucalyptus Goes Commercial with $5.5M Funding Round

Eucalyptus Goes Commercial with $5.5M Funding Round — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:09:28 +0000

[...] Google App Engine API via support for the open-source AppScale project. Customers don’t get locked into Eucalyptus, because APIs can be mixed and matched, and apps can be ported seamlessly to their [...]

By: Tarun Dua

Tarun Dua — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:50:22 +0000

The larger benefits of cloud computing are ultra-low cost ( mostly self-service ) provisioning of resources(read applications) without having to go through the corporate hierarchies for permissions, which was an expensive and outdated way of dealing with computing resources. The other part of the equation for corporate clouds is monitoring and billing for these resources to various departments in a transparent fashion. On my spreadsheet I have never ever been able to justify the total cost of ownership of VMWare Infrastructure licensing especially in India while alternatives like Xen(the opensource version shipped with CentOS) and now rapidly maturing Open Source Cloud provisioning platforms exist. A lot is made about vmotion and power savings possible with non-24×7 environments, but it is possible to do similar things with Xen without noticeable downtime. VMWare definitely needs to think about interoperating with other hypervisors especially when they don’t support high end platforms like IA-64 directly.

By: For VMWare Growth Is Vanishing

For VMWare Growth Is Vanishing — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:22:18 +0000

[...] the way forward for VMWare is to move into premium products. VMWare yesterday announced a whole soups-to-nuts solution that fits the bill. Whether it sells — that remains to be seen. [...]

By: VMware vSphere: Not your average Cloud-OS..oh wait..the only Cloud-OS « blog.vTacit.com

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:50:19 +0000

[...] And for bonus…those that just don’t get it [...]

By: VMware Virtualization Package Has Lots to Offer, But Will It Sell?

VMware Virtualization Package Has Lots to Offer, But Will It Sell? — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:53:53 +0000

[...] Urbanski | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 | 3:50 PM PT | 0 comments VMware has dubbed the major refresh of its server virtualization product line, vSphere, the “mainframe of the 21st century.” While I’m impressed by the product [...]

By: rohit

rohit — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:25:40 +0000

… just what we need, yet another Markitechture move in the already confusing cloudsphere. v-sphere/cloud is no more a cloud OS than IBM tivoli or even HP openview (ok so maybe not openview) applied to management of single-company products.

By: Vikas Singhania

Vikas Singhania — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:13:39 +0000

Unfortunately, we have taken a turn against Red Hat and Novell in this case. Remember when Microsoft marketed that it owned something like 85% of all websites. This was due to the number of Microsoft servers that came embedded with IIS. The same on the desktop, IE embedded in the desktop, therefore it received a larger chunk of the “browser share”. Red Hat and Novell played into this by embedding Xen into both their Free and Enterprise OSes. Unfortunately, because the cost is $0 dollars it usually doesn’t show a blip in these types of reports. Should we take the stance that every server install of Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, openSuSE, and SuSE Enterprise is a virtual server in this case. If you say yes, then I believe their market share goes up dramatically. Maybe Red Hat and Novell need to take a marketing page from the Legacy FUD of Microsoft.

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By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:57:11 +0000

Fair point about vSphere’s lack of support for Xen and Hyper-V HOWEVER I still think it’s pretty cool that they are providing companies with tools to build their own cloud computing infrastructures instead of having to hand over the keys and the kingdom to Google or Amazon. The situation reminds me of how we used to outsource services wholesale to India until we figured out it makes more sense to do it strategically–same thing here with VMware: outsource to a hosting provider where it makes sense, run your own internal cloud for apps and data that need to stay in-house.